Reading Time: 3 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch Since the early 20th century, the Square Metre Boat is admired for its beauty, speed, and joy to sail. Inspired by the elegance of the Skärgårdskryssare, it was time for a good-looking and well sailing one-design suiting better to the requirements of a family in the early seventies. So Swede 55 was conceived in 1974-75 by …
Reading Time: 6 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch The Square Metre Boat cruising variant Swede 55 is delighting sailors all around the globe. Although series production ended in 1979, with Gamle Swede as hull number 27 launched by Fisksätra Varv, 18 more boats followed. One of them, technically and in terms of sailing the most interesting, is Cheyenne. Göran Lindgren got his dream boat …
Reading Time: 2 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch The cruising versions of the Square Metre Boat such as the Knud Reimers designed S30 and Swede 55 from the seventies have successors. Here you see some Videos of Swede 41 Classic named Sleipnir launched 2018 and the Swede 55 successor named Cheyenne launched 2002. Swede 41 Classic Sleipnir The helmsman with the hat is Stockholm …
Reading Time: 5 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch In the 1970s, admirers of the beautiful Johan Anker-designed keelboat Dragon, the classy 30 Square Metre Boat, the Swiss Lacustre or the Folkboat had a problem. A wooden boat needs a lot of attention, time, and skilled craftsmanship. And it is expensive to build new. So the future of these fine boats was uncertain. The solution …
Reading Time: 3 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch Based on decades of sailing and boat maintenance, repair jobs and boat sales, I am helping prospective owners regarding boat selection all the way up to finally offering the boat. Having serviced my clients, I am occasionally asking to drop some notes regarding my job. Here is an extract of references from clients I have advised …
Reading Time: < 1 minute→ Artikel auf Deutsch Sign up for the free Swedesail newsletter, and I will occasionally make you aware of articles on interesting boats, sailing, yacht design, and construction covering Relevant information on what matters I will not bother with industry gossip and spare you of special offers, references to volume models, and so-called world premieres being out-of-date tomorrow. The articles …
Reading Time: 3 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch Due to the elegant low profile of the hull, limited freeboard is an issue aboard beautiful boats. The price is that you can hardly stand upright in the cabin. So sailors of classy Skerry Cruisers or Skärgårdskryssare know this price well. You only change clothes when the sliding hatch is open. Or you have a boat …
Reading Time: 6 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch A notoriously underestimated topic is the weight of the boat. How heavy and thus under-rigged is it? Will it sail in light winds at all? And how much extra load, provisions, and luggage can it handle? Five examples. Cement mixer or sailboat? Today, cruising boats are considered as floating weekend flats. Whatever we appreciate at a …
Reading Time: 6 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch As the drawing reveals, this 79-footer had an owner’s cabin with an en suite bathroom, a saloon, and even a small kitchen next to the mast. Floorboards placed deep midships, this legendary Skerry cruiser provided full headroom. The largest Skärgårdskryssare ever built was almost 11 feet (3.35 m) wide. Of its 79 feet (24 metres), that …
Reading Time: 8 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch A portrait of a pioneer of GRP boat building in Sweden as early as the end of the 1940s. A look at the 60-year history of the yard, which ended with the delivery of the last Swede 55 named Gamle Swede in May 1980. The yard was located 1968 to 1979 in the above shown former …
